At SVA, we strive to support our students both inside and outside the classroom. Students living on campus join a unique community of artists in a safe, diverse, and supportive living environment. We ...

Our aim is to provide students with the skills and analytical approaches necessary to adapt to an ever-evolving professional landscape—all to strengthen the impact of their personal artistic vision.

This program aims directly at enabling the whole artist: body, mind, and spirit. We foster the development of soulful artists who make art to nurture and to challenge all that is best in human life.

The Main Library has holdings in excess of 100,000 print books, 15,000 DVDs & Blu-rays, 200 current magazine subscriptions, and 700 historical runs, 300,000 pictures and special collections including ...

Our graduates and faculty are some of the most influential cultural forces, consistently producing images unparalleled in concept, impact, and craft. For the last 75 years, SVA’s BFA Illustration ...

We value our differences. An SVA education is informed by multiple approaches to learning and making, and by the presence of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, perspectives, and ...

We meet the needs of professional photographers, educators, and artists who want to advance their skills in digital image capture, image processing, and high-quality output to remain competitive in ...

Social design uses systems design, critical thinking, and imagination to move people to become more resilient and resourceful. It’s a balance of the academic and practical. Social design is a practice ...

Our faculty and professional orbit of interior and architectural designers inspire students to foster cultural and social change while challenging conventions. Unlike most programs, from day one, ...

SVA Pre-College is designed for high school students who want to enhance their creative skills, explore a specific field of art, develop a portfolio, and experience the challenges and triumphs that ...

The MFA program in computer arts is multidisciplinary by nature. As technology and software evolve, new opportunities for creative self-expression emerge. Specific departmental course requirements are ...

Our long tradition, award-winning faculty, and passion for storytelling comprise one of the very few Bachelor of Fine Arts in comics worldwide—an industry-minded degree in the heart of Gotham City.